Deda Gillespie - McMaster Experts

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McMaster University,
Faculty of Science, McMaster University
Member, Origins Institute, Faculty of Science
Associate Member, Biology, Faculty of Science
Associate Professor, Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, Faculty of Science

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chapters
- Sensory Organ Disorders (Retina, Auditory, Olfactory, Gustatory). 731-759. 2013
- Sensory Organ Disorders (Retina, Auditory, Olfactory, Gustatory). 731-759. 2013
- GABA, Glycine, and Glutamate Co-Release at Developing Inhibitory Synapses. 1-26. 2009
- Control of Cellular Activity. 155-251. 2005
- Caged Neurotransmitters for Probing Neuronal Circuits, Neuronal Integration and Synaptic Plasticity. 232-251. 2005
journal articles
- Neuronal pentraxin 1 depletion delays neurodegeneration and extends life in Sandhoff disease mice. Human Molecular Genetics. 26:ddw422-ddw422. 2017
- Activation of Neural Cell Fate Programs Toward Direct Conversion of Adult Human Fibroblasts into Tri-Potent Neural Progenitors Using OCT-4. Stem Cells and Development. 23:1937-1946. 2014
- VGLUT3 does not synergize GABA/glycine release during functional refinement of an inhibitory auditory circuit. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 8:140. 2014
- Maturation of Calcium-Dependent GABA, Glycine, and Glutamate Release in the Glycinergic MNTB-LSO Pathway. PLoS ONE. 8:e75688-e75688. 2013
- Glutamatergic inputs and glutamate-releasing immature inhibitory inputs activate a shared postsynaptic receptor population in lateral superior olive. Neuroscience. 196:285-296. 2011
- Pre- and postsynaptic properties of glutamatergic transmission in the immature inhibitory MNTB-LSO pathway. Journal of Neurophysiology. 106:2570-2579. 2011
- Synaptotagmins I and II in the developing rat auditory brainstem: Synaptotagmin I is transiently expressed in glutamate‐releasing immature inhibitory terminals. Journal of Comparative Neurology. 519:2417-2433. 2011
- Functional Refinement in the Projection from Ventral Cochlear Nucleus to Lateral Superior Olive Precedes Hearing Onset in Rat. PLoS ONE. 6:e20756-e20756. 2011
- Developmental refinement of inhibitory sound-localization circuits. Trends in Neurosciences. 28:290-296. 2005
- Inhibitory synapses in the developing auditory system are glutamatergic. Nature Neuroscience. 8:332-338. 2005
- Glutamatergic Calcium Responses in the Developing Lateral Superior Olive: Receptor Types and Their Specific Activation by Synaptic Activity Patterns. Journal of Neurophysiology. 90:2581-2591. 2003
- Infusion of nerve growth factor (NGF) into kitten visual cortex increases immunoreactivity for NGF, NGF receptors, and choline acetyltransferase in basal forebrain without affecting ocular dominance plasticity or column development. Neuroscience. 108:569-585. 2001
- Dynamics of the orientation-tuned membrane potential response in cat primary visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience. 4:1014-1019. 2001
- Prediction of Orientation Selectivity from Receptive Field Architecture in Simple Cells of Cat Visual Cortex. Neuron. 30:263-274. 2001
- Membrane Potential and Conductance Changes Underlying Length Tuning of Cells in Cat Primary Visual Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 21:2104-2112. 2001
- Neurotrophin-4/5 Alters Responses and Blocks the Effect of Monocular Deprivation in Cat Visual Cortex during the Critical Period. Journal of Neuroscience. 20:9174-9186. 2000
- The Contribution of Noise to Contrast Invariance of Orientation Tuning in Cat Visual Cortex. Science. 290:1968-1972. 2000
- Morphology of Single Geniculocortical Afferents and Functional Recovery of the Visual Cortex after Reverse Monocular Deprivation in the Kitten. Journal of Neuroscience. 18:9896-9909. 1998
- The Role of Visual Experience in the Development of Columns in Cat Visual Cortex. Science. 279:566-570. 1998
- Relationship between the Ocular Dominance and Orientation Maps in Visual Cortex of Monocularly Deprived Cats. Neuron. 19:307-318. 1997
- Ocular Dominance Peaks at Pinwheel Center Singularities of the Orientation Map in Cat Visual Cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology. 77:3381-3385. 1997
- Inhibition of nitric oxide synthase does not prevent ocular dominance plasticity in kitten visual cortex.. Journal of Physiology. 494:519-527. 1996
preprints
- Ultrastructure of immature synaptic inputs in the lateral superior olive of rodent brainstem 2024